Example sentences of "in the [noun] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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1 | I decided to take a lot of the fruit , and to put it to dry in the sun for a time . |
2 | Chapman insisted , too , that his players should have decent club conditions , and the Highbury dressing-rooms were rated the best in the country at a time when most clubs were content to provide only the most spartan of facilities for changing and cleaning . |
3 | Makarenko 's colony near Poltava was a drop in the ocean at a time when 200 children a day were abandoned in Samara . |
4 | Once you think it is clean , rinse it again a couple of times to make absolutely sure , fill the basin with cold water and place one strand of seaweed in the basin at a time . |
5 | The evidence , whether in the form of a time series or a cross-section of individuals , industries or regions , comes not from taxation directly but from hours of work supplied at different wages net of tax — which , of course , is not quite the question at hand . |
6 | You had to queue to sign the book , as only one inmate was allowed in the office at a time . |
7 | But he admitted to a great sense of satisfaction at having been in the job at a time when the world had ‘ seen the most rapid political changes in the past 50 years ’ , from the end of the Cold War to the dismemberment of the Soviet Union , and the appointment of former POCs like Vaclav Havel to become heads of state . |
8 | These are old , and they were made in the mind at a time of great fear . |
9 | The investment was modest but it was an indication of his faith in the painter at a time when Modigliani badly needed the support . |
10 | in the language for a time |
11 | They existed in significant numbers in the town at a time when there was restiveness amongst some antislavery people at the growing identification of antislavery with political liberalism and the demands of religious dissent . |
12 | There was little hope for political enlightenment in the provinces at a time when the number of literary centres and of those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to in 1921 . |
13 | He became a medical missionary and came to Madeira in 1838 , arriving in the island at a time of great social and economic crisis , to which he reacted by opening schools and a hospital where he dispensed free treatment . |
14 | After his residency with Cleveland Arts finishes , Mr Crowley plans to remain in the area for a time . |